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The PS3 was a great console, and it was home to plenty of awesome games. Keeping an old one around now might seem a little cumbersome. Thankfully, you can play your PS3 games on Linux with the RPCS3 emulator. This guide will walk you through the process of getting set up. Before you continue, please note that RPCS3 is still in Alpha. Expect bugs. That said, you'll still find plenty of games are playable.

When writing Bash scripts, you will sometimes find yourself in situations where you need to read a file line by line. For example, you may have a text file containing data that should be processed by the script.

Scratch is a visual programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. I recommend 7 free books that really help young people to master Scratch. These recommended texts are also open source goodness.

The KDE Project released today the beta version of their upcoming KDE Plasma 5.16 desktop environment to give the community an early taste of what's coming.

In recent years, we’ve witnessed an explosion in the number of technological devices that deliver web-based content to users. Smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and more—all with progressively advancing technical capabilities and support for an ever-widening list of operating systems and web browsers—swarm anew onto the market each year. What does this trend have to do with web development and headless versus traditional Content Management Systems (CMS)? Quite a lot. read more

Video: Sometime in the next few months, IBM's acquisition of Red Hat will go through. Here's what will happen to Red Hat afterwards.

Today KDE launches the beta release of Plasma 5.16. In this release, many aspects of Plasma have been polished and rewritten to provide high consistency and bring new features. There is a completely rewritten notification system supporting Do Not Disturb mode, more intelligent history with grouping, critical notifications in fullscreen apps, improved notifications for file transfer jobs, a much more usable System Settings page to configure everything, and many other things.

It is of utmost importance that the user should have ample understanding of safe and deadly commands before executing. Here, we are going to discuss the deadly commands that you should never run without a full understanding of what they mean.

Kubernetes has strong security controls – but some common mistakes pop up, especially when teams rush into production

Protect your code commits from malicious changes by GPG-signing them.

Organizations everywhere are becoming more open—and more innovative, agile, and engaged as a result. But can we say the same of our educational organizations? read more

This article presents 2 tools for converting PDF documents to editable text on Linux, using a graphical tool (Calibre) and a command line tool (pdftotext).

2DayGeek: Learn how to access remote MySQL/MariaDB databases right from Linux terminal.

There may come a time when that package you want to install in RedHat Linux 8.0 is simply not available as a RPM file. The alternative is to download the source and compile it yourself, or - alternatively - generate a RPM file from that source code later on.

But there is another way. Given the fact that Debian-based distributions have way more users than RPM-based ones, the number of available packages in their repositories is greater. Chances are you will be able to find a DEB file for that package you want. Here is how to install that DEB file in RedHat Linux with the help of a small utility called alien.

How to remove duplicate lines of a file in Linux without sorting or changing their order.

In The Open Organization, Jim Whitehurst says, "show passion for the purpose of your organization and constantly drive interest in it. People are drawn to and generally, want to follow passionate people." Carl Richell, the founder and CEO of Linux hardware maker System76, pours that secret sauce to propel his company in the world of open hardware, Linux, and open source. read more

MyBB is a free, open source and powerful forum software written in PHP language and uses MariaDB to store their data. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install MyBB forum on Ubuntu 18.04 server.

Linux Containers have become a popular topic, making sure that a container image is not bigger than it should be is considered as a good practice. This article give some tips on how to create smaller Fedora container images. microdnf Fedora’s DNF is written in Python and and it’s designed to be extensible as it […]

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I’m always on the lookout for new datasets that we can use to show off the power of my team's work. CHAOSSEARCH turns your Amazon S3 object storage data into a fully searchable Elasticsearch-like cluster. With the Elasticsearch API or tools like Kibana, you can then query whatever data you find.